Section: US & Canada

NATO has launched its first military drills in Poland—its largest since the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union dissolved more than 25 years ago. Poland, along with its NATO partners, kicked off the two-week long Anaconda initiative, which are designed to check “the alliance’s ability to defend its eastern flank,” Polish Defence Minister...

Ed AdamczykTILBURG , Netherlands, June 7 (UPI) — Investigators in the Netherlands on Tuesday released the photo of a missile part discovered at the Ukrainian crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. …read more Source: United Press...

BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — An Argentinian-Israeli soccer star on Sunday led the Argentinian team “Talleres” to a championship and a promotion from the national B Division to the premier A league Eial Strahman, 26, who formerly played for the Israeli Maccabi Haifa team, is now being called “Strahman the super hero” by local media for the unbeaten...

In a 1924 article for the Frankfurter Zeitung entitled “Journey through Galicia: People and Place,” Joseph Roth referred to this easternmost region of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire—and his homeland—as a “maltreated, scorned corner of Europe” full of desolate villages and battle-scarred fields. There are some places where everything feels...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has appealed to his French counterpart to “facilitate the issuance of visas” for Ukrainian soccer fans planning to travel to France for the Euro 2016 soccer tournament. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

Poland and more than 20 NATO member states begin a large-scale military training exercise Tuesday as part of efforts to reassure central and eastern European countries concerned by Russia’s actions in nearby Ukraine. The Kremlin formally denounced the exercises early Tuesday, saying they do not contribute to an atmosphere of trust and...